On 20 December 2011 20:51, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Languages shouldn't depend on advanced editor > features or special keyboards -- that way leads to ColorForth and APL. > True, but dependency on a tool is not the same as being crafted to work best on the tool that 99.9% of programmers use. It's not like it's an ide-*only *feature we were discussing. It's just an observation that this feature* works well with syntax highlighting. *That's a good thing.* * * *What feature are we discussing anyway? I can't remember... Oh! It's actually that "vargs" will be a highlighted keyword! Well, someone using ed will obviously have to stop using python on the basis that "vargs" isn't highlighted, then, which makes it a bad idea. *No*, what makes it a bad idea is the concept itself. As I've said, the 1/10,000 using ed have bigger problems.
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